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No Institution Did More To Create A Modern Citizenry Than The Newspaper Press Of The Meiji Period (1868-1912). Here Was A Collection Of Highly Diverse, Private Voices That Provided Increasing Numbers Of Readers - Many Millions By The End Of The Period - With Both Its Fresh Picture Of The World And A Changing Sense Of Its Own Place In That World. Creating A Public Is The First Comprehensive History Of Japan's Early Newspaper Press To Appear In English In More Than Half A Century. Drawing On Decades Of Research In Newspaper Articles And Editorials, Journalists' Memoirs And Essays, Government Documents And Press Analyses, It Tells The Story Of Japan's Newspaper Press From Its Elitist Beginnings Just Before The Fall Of The Tokugawa Regime Through Its Years As A Shaper Of A New Political System In The 1880s To Its Emergence As A Nationalistic, Often Sensational, Medium Early In The Twentieth Century.^ More Than An Institutional Study, This Work Not Only Traces The Evolution Of The Press' Leading Papers, Their Changing Approaches To Circulation, News, And Advertising, And The Personalities Of Their Leading Editors; It Also Examines The Interplay Between Japan's Elite Institutions And Its

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Author

James L. Huffman

Publisher

University of Hawai'i Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824818821

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Literary Fiction, Social Science